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Thursday, September 13, 2012

So Many Directions!

This school semester has me excited. I was very concerned that having three writing classes would drive me insane, and it still may by the time finals get here, but right now I am enjoying it.

Each class is very different from each other.

Technical Report Writing is focused on the ins and outs of writing reports and doing projects. The focus is become efficient at writing the reports that will be needed in a professional environment. The benefit of taking this class and the benefit of being a Professional Writing Minor is that regardless of what career I pursue, I will be able to write virtually any report that would be needed.

Expository Writing or as the professor is lovingly calling it Advanced Composition it is as it is called. This class is concentrating on the way we write an essay, specifically we are writing about the Shakespearean Sonnets to develop our writing skills further. I look forward to this as I love Shakespeare. I look forward to diving in to the essays.

Feature Writing is writing feature articles for a newspaper. My topic has leaned towards advocacy and congenital heart defects. Knowing my heart and passion on this I am excited to use the education to benefit the awareness of a topic I love.

The thing is, while all three classes seem to be going in different directions they are actually working together. Each class has something that can be used in the other. Thankfully at the moment the classes are working together instead of against each other.

Now if only the forth class would benefit the writing classes it would be perfection.

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About Me

Always a creative, I have constantly sought out a way to tell a story. When I was a young child sitting next to my mother in church learning to take notes before I could even write, I would draw pictures of the message that was being shared. As I grew older I learned to communicate with tales from an amazing imagination. Once I got to be around 10, I received my first camera (an old 126 and then the 110 spy cam). I couldn't keep film in those, I was always snapping pictures. All through school I would journal and write. Once in high school freeverse poetry became a favorite and I was even recognized with one of my poems. The creativity never stopped.

And now, as I enter my second childhood, the muse is becoming a close friend once again.